Cultural Curation Collective
A Space for Indigenous artists to share resources, virtual discussions, opportunities, and experiences in navigating the art sector in Canada.
VIRTUAL DISCUSSIONS
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RESOURCES
Self Advocacy
Promoting and Protecting the Arts and Cultural Expressions of Indigenous Peoples
Protect and Promote Your Culture
Art Business
Performance
Community Building
Media
Funding
Indigenous Futurism
COLLECTIVE MEMBERS
Lindsay Delaronde
Multidisciplinary artist
Adele ᒪᐢᑿᓱᐤᐏᐢᑵᐤ Arseneau
Artist Description: Adele ᒪᐢᑿᓱᐤᐏᐢᑵᐤ Arseneau is a disabled Nehiyaw/Michif multi-disciplinary artist who creates bespoke works for galleries, private collections and public art commissions. She grounds her artwork in story, engaging audiences by weaving connection to cultural, social and environmental issues. It was the way her family taught her to learn and share knowledge. Displaced from her family’s traditional territory of Northern Saskatchewan, Adele grew up with the Dakelh (Carrier) people of British Columbia in Prince George, and Fraser Lake. Moving away from the traditions of her adopted family while journeying towards those of her biological family. She carves cedar, beads contemporaryand traditional Métis and plains style beadwork, creates hide textiles and digital art. She has completed the Reconciliation Carving program at Langara, and holds diplomas in both Fine Art and Graphic Design. In 2019 she finished a hide tanning residency with Fern and Roe and continues to mentor upcoming hide tanners. Currently, she is a member of the Triia Native Art Collective in Montana, Cowichan Valley Arts Council, North Vancouver Arts Council, Seymour Art Gallery, CARFAC and a consultant for the Metis Nation BC’s Culture & Heritage Working Group. Since 2015, her work has shown in galleries from the North Vancouver to Toronto, including public art with the City ofVancouver. Dedicated to reconnecting culture,she looks forward to where her artistic journey is going to take her.
Contact information : Instagram:@MetisCaron
Brianna LaPlante
Brianna LaPlante is a Fine Artist from Fishing Lake First Nation living on Treaty 4, oskana kâ-asastêki.
Contact information : Instagram @briitaylorlaine
Holly Aubichon
Artist Description: Holly Aubichon investigates topics of urban Indigeneity and how ancestral knowledge reaches urban Indigenous people through memories; land, and body. Her practice includes painting, writing and curation. She identifies as Métis, Cree from her Paternal side, and Ukrainian, Irish, and Scottish ancestry from her Maternal side. Aubichon was born and raised in Regina, Saskatchewan. Her Indigenous relations come from Meadow Lake and Lestock, SK. She graduated from the University of Regina in 2021 with a BFA, minoring in Indigenous Art History and was the Saskatchewan recipient of the 2021 BMO 1st Art! Award. Aubichon is the current Artistic Director for Sâkêwêwak Artists’ Collective. Aubichon uses painting as a way to foster personal healing. Aggressive assimilation and its aftermaths have had a devastating effect on her family. Members are dispersed and deceased. Aubuchon's paintings symbolically recovers and restores them to her circle. Through research and painting, she processes memories, reconnects familial relations and navigates her place within those renewed connections. Her painting shows an intimate urban interior, showing how Indigenous people do their best to continue traditional ways while adapting to contemporary reality. Aubichon's paintings are representational but include subtle shifts in perspective and are dimly lit to suggest memory recall, emotional stress, spiritual presence, ceremony, tenderness, and the weight of intergenerational trauma.
Contact information : aubichon.ca, instragram - aubichoh